Just a short one, today.

[active_apathy]

And this is because there wasn't a lot to talk about from my Monday. Sad but true.

So, what is there? Firstly, there was a Dianetics ad on TV earlier. I was amused by this, since they're selling it as a self-help book. A self-help book by an author who famously claimed that the easiest way to make money is to start a religion. I'm considering offering an alternate title - maybe Jumping On Couches For Dummies.

But! That's of secondary importance. I've started playing NetHack again, and it's more fun than ever. Not that it ever wasn't fun, but every time I start playing it again I realise how much I've missed it. Just need to get out of the Gnomish Mines intact, one of these days. And maybe even Ascend, but that's not for ages and ages yet.

I've got a notion to play Rogue again. If you have a link for a win32-friendly Rogue binary, or for the Rogue source (how hard can it be to find a C compiler?), then please, please post it here.

And that's it for the moment. Off to go and set foot in the Dungeons of Doom all over again.

Comments

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

Linda's curisotiy is:

• Vast


• Penetrating


• Profound


• To be encouraged and indulged

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

To be indulged? I could get used to this.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

I'm a very giving and indulgent person when it comes to my friends. If I may call you that.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

You may! Just expect it in return.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

Wooo!

*feels all honoured and stuff*

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

*reads*

*stops, checks*

*peers intently*

Wooo! You spell words properly!

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

I'm Canajun, eh?

Truly, I do honour to the language of the British Empire, who's Commonwealth spread around the world, under her flying colours, brought to remote climes by the valour of her people.

I spell words like metre and centre with an "re" too.

However, I do use a Z for words like analyze.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Oh, of course. *remembers now*

Your sentence is lovable, though I must insist on the word 'whose'.

And I really should insist on analyse with an s, too; analysis is derived from the Greek αναλυσις, which (very roughly) means to break into pieces.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

Canadian English spelling, when looked at, is about 2/3rds British (ou, re, etc) and 1/3rd American (analyze et al).

One set of spellings I'm bad about is defenc/se. It seems to vary for me depending on the usage and context, though not in any pattern I can see.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I'm just as bad. I'll either pick one at random, or go and look it up (then promptly forget again)

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

Even Grammar Nazis screw up from time to time.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I consider myself more a grammar empress, who deals harshly with inefficient civil servants but who sleeps in every so often.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

Yes, your worship!

*bows down and grovels before your magnanimousness*

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Oh, get up. And none of this "I'm-not-worthy" crap, either.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

*rises*

*pouts*

But... why not?

*sulks*

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Because the Monty Python quote seemed fun at the time.

You can bow down and grovel if you really want to; I'm nice like that.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it's a great burden, having someone grovel at your feet.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Only sometimes, like when I'm vacuuming, or washing the floors. And the shower's a bit small for it, too.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

In the shower, huh?

*raises eyebrows*

*says nothing*

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

It's true, though. Bathtubs, for example, have no shortage of space for one groveller, and others may gather by the side of it. The shower, on the other hand, presents a unique problem - limited floorspace, coupled with the door having to close, means that it's either very inconvenient or the shower screen gets worshipped for a bit.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

Touche. I am skewered once again by your rapier wit.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

We know you love it.

And I'm sure it's useful to have an explanation of why 'showered with praise' is a strictly figurative expression.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

Of course I do, but so many things about you are lovable

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

And this is the bit where the thread gets awkward, because there's no other bit to comment on while carefully letting the whole 'lovable' bit slide off into obscurity.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

And what's wrong with you being lovable, eh?